The inlet was approximately located at the boundary between Ortley Beach and Seaside Heights, nearly opposite the mouth of the Toms River.
During the Revolutionary War it was a place of considerable importance, as it afforded conveniences to our privateers on the lookout for British vessels bound in and out of New York.
Though we have no exact account of the depth of water on the bar, yet in its best days it must have been equal to the best inlets on our coast, as we find loaded square-rigged vessels occasionally entered it.
David Mapes, a much-esteemed and noted colored Quaker of Tuckerton, when a boy, resided in this vicinity, and was employed by Solomon Wardell to tend cattle on the beach when the inlet broke through.
Many supposed that if an effort was made to open an inlet farther down the bay, in the vicinity of old Cranberry, it would prove more successful.